Improvement in corsets



SUSANNA ei mus.

Corst Patented Feb. 9,1875.

Jn Van Z02? UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

susANNA n. BURNS, or EASTPORT,-MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORSETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,539, dated February 9, 1875; application filed September 15,1874.

1' 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SUSANNA E. BURNs, of Eastport, in the county of Washington, State of Maine, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Corsets, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing form ing a part of this specification, in which Figure l is a front view, and Fig. 2 a rear "iew, showing my improvement.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the draw- My invention relates more especially to that class of corsets which are provided with trusses or supports; and consists in a novel construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by which a better fitting and more effective article of this character is provided than is now in common use.

In Fig. 1 of the drawing, A A is the body; a b, the flies or flaps arranged on the outside of the corsets; g g, thelacings; and c c, the front stays.

In Fig. 2, B is a support forming the back of the corset, and m m lacings by which it is attached to the body A A.

The stays c c are curved laterally, as shown by'the dotted lines, and are provided with oblong pads ff, which act as trusses for supporting the bosom of the wearer, the flies or flaps a b and lacings y being for the purpose of adjusting the corset to this part of the form. The part B is intended to act as a truss to support the back of the wearer, and for that purpose is provided with the stays as d i, and is rendered vertically adjustable in the corset by means of the lacings m m.

Having thus described my invention, which, from the foregoing, will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters, what I claim is 1. In a corset, the curved front stays c 0, provided With the pads ff, arranged substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a corset, the flaps a b and lacings 9, arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

SUSANNA E. BURNS.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM CAMPBELL, JOHN H. FRENCH. 

